Synesthesia

Scriabin so linked color to his music that he created a “light organ”  to display colors that corresponded to different notes in his pieces.   How does color and visual art affect composers and their music today?

Michael Torke: Bright Blue Music for Orchestra

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Zinman

Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel

California EAR Unit

Jennifer Higdon: Short Stories for Saxophone Quartet, I & V

Ancia Saxophone Quartet

Dan Welcher: Light Coming on the Plains & Starlight Night from Prairie Light: 3

Texas Watercolors of Georgia O’Keefe

Honolulu Symphony Orchestra/Johanos

Gunther Schuller: The Twittering Machine fr. Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra/Antal Dorati

Cindy McTee: Twittering Machine

North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon

Stephen Hartke: King of the Sun, I & IV

Dunsmuir Piano Quartet